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[PROCTER, Bryan Waller] 'Barry Cornwall'. Charles Lamb: a Memoir. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866.
8° (213 x 136mm). Lithographic portrait frontispiece and four portrait plates, the frontispiece skilfully hand-coloured at a later date, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 15 engraved portraits, some inlaid to size, 5 with later hand-colouring. Cosway-style binding in later red morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover with inset original oval portrait miniature of Lamb, the miniature surrounded with a triple-fillet gilt border interspersed with an inlaid border of seed-pearls, all within a wide outer border of gilt fillets, gilt-tooled decoration of stylised flowers and foliage and blue morocco onlay, the lower cover with similar gilt decorated outer border with onlay, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt with blue morocco onlays and motifs, gilt turn-ins, watered-silk endleaves, gilt edges.
8° (213 x 136mm). Lithographic portrait frontispiece and four portrait plates, the frontispiece skilfully hand-coloured at a later date, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 15 engraved portraits, some inlaid to size, 5 with later hand-colouring. Cosway-style binding in later red morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover with inset original oval portrait miniature of Lamb, the miniature surrounded with a triple-fillet gilt border interspersed with an inlaid border of seed-pearls, all within a wide outer border of gilt fillets, gilt-tooled decoration of stylised flowers and foliage and blue morocco onlay, the lower cover with similar gilt decorated outer border with onlay, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration in gilt with blue morocco onlays and motifs, gilt turn-ins, watered-silk endleaves, gilt edges.
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